The other, purchased as an afterthought along with a Diet Coke during a stop for gas in Riverdale, New Jersey, netted him a $533 million prize, the fourth largest in the game's history and one of the 10 largest jackpots ever.

Forty-seven-year-old Richard Wahl, of Vernon, New Jersey, was introduced Friday during a news conference at lottery headquarters after winning the half-billion March Mega Millions drawing, the largest single jackpot in state history. The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 303 million.

He told reporters on Friday about the moment when he learned he was the victor, during the March 30 drawing. "And I wasn't ready to share with her yet, so I told her, 'Absolutely not, mother'".

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Richard Wahl- who just moved to The Garden State last year from MI last year - will take home a lump sum payout of $324 million, according to NBC New York. "It was truly awesome".

They checked the numbers "at least 15 times", Wahl said, hugging and crying together over their good fortune, ABC 7 reported.

Mega Millions can be played in 44 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Wahl declined to discuss his family, citing security concerns, but said he told no one about the win until he met with financial advisers - even his mother. It's not only life changing money for me but it's life changing for others.

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